“Orwell was unable to conceive of computers or robots, or he would have placed everyone under non-human surveillance.”

Peter Thiel would give even George Orwell the creeps.

As foretold in Matrix (1999)

Does anyone have a link to the original post in addition to the image?

Eaten by LLMs?

Moreover, why isn’t there a federated LinkedIn clone??? Or is there and I haven’t found it yet?

Unfortunately he is still around to participate in the Worst Person in Tech 2025: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115724451779826473

Well, numbers are already fabricated without real substance may times, so why not?

The instruction is smaller than “mov eax, 0” (because it includes the 32-bit zero) and the result is the same. Notice that smaller may mean more instructions in cache for a tight loop, so it may also result in better performace, too.

Joined! Thank you for setting this up :-)

Thanks for the heads up! With so many obscure hardware items it’s sometimes unclear whether a gadget is just weird or fake bs 😅

Yeah, me too. I don’t see (at first) how it is supposed to accelerate anything.

Librewolf. See !Librewolf@lemmy.ml for tips on configuring it for different use cases.

They say the same company worked in a Z80 version but I haven’t been able to find any info onbthat, does anybody know? Especially anything related to a modern version of the old Amstrads.

Thanks Microsoft, but you’re late, as usual :-(

Python. At some point there were even talks about a common runtime, Parrot.

Good, fuck Oracle! Any tech they touch turns to shit, or as the article describes them, they’re a “Reverse Midas”

I had never thought about it, but it makes total sense and would gap the divide between the web and social networks 🫂

Track which countries these fuckers are fleeing to, push for stricter wealth taxes there.

Linux, what else? 😉

Poor animals, none of them deserve how (most) humans treat them 😢